Athletes

Mikaël Kingsbury (English: Mikaël Kingsbury, July 24, 1992 -), Canadian men's freestyle skier. He represented Canada in freestyle skiing at the 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2026 Winter Olympics, winning two gold medals and three silver medals.

Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm (English: Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm, March 17, 1972 -), American former professional women's soccer player. She played for the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team for 17 years, scoring 158 goals. Mia Hamm is one of the most famous athletes in the world, an icon for women's sports and a role model for a generation of women interested in women's sports. As a member of the first generation to receive equal education as men through Title IX, Mia Hamm received the scholarships, support and training opportunities she needed to become a top athlete. Mia Hamm was the winner of Miss Football World in 2001 and 2002. She was also considered by Billy to be one of the top 125 living football players (FIFA 100). Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon considers Mia Hamm "perhaps the most important athlete of the past 15 years." Mia Hamm retired in 2004 after participating in a game celebrating the United States women's national soccer team's gold medal in women's soccer at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In 2007, Mia Hamm participated in the selection of the National Football Hall of Fame for the first time and received 137 votes in favor of 141 votes, thus being successfully selected. The Women's Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league that began in 2009, and Mia Hamm's silhouette is part of the league's logo. On March 11, 2008, Mia Hamm was successfully inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Mia Hamm is the author of Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life. She has participated in the HBO documentary "Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team."

John Trevor Virgo (English: John Trevor Virgo, March 4, 1946 - February 4, 2026) was an English snooker commentator and former professional snooker player. Vergo turned professional in 1976. In 1979, he reached the semi-finals of the World Championships. Won the 1979 British Championship in the same year. He retired in 1994. Virgo had a successful career at the BBC, co-presenting Big Break from 1991 to 2002 and serving as the channel's snooker commentator. He is a member of the Snooker Hall of Fame.

Nate Silver (English: Nate Silver; January 13, 1978 -) is an American statistician and author who specializes in analyzing baseball data and predicting election results.

Virat Kohli (English: Virat Kohli, Hindi: विररट कोहली, November 5, 1988 -) is an Indian cricket player and captain of the Indian cricket national team. Goli has also been named one of the world's most famous and India's most valuable athletes by ESPN and Forbes. His wife is Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma.

Hendrik Johannes "Johan" Cruijff (Dutch: [ˈjoːɦɑn ˈkrœyf] , April 25, 1947 - March 24, 2016), was a famous Dutch footballer. He won the European Footballer of the Year three times and led the Dutch team to a World Cup runner-up and a European Cup third place. After retiring, he became a football coach and also achieved extremely high achievements. He is one of the most legendary superstars in the world of football. He was voted sixth among the greatest Dutchmen in 2004, behind Erasmus who was ranked fifth. He had been a heavy smoker since his playing days, which caused him to have severe heart and lung function problems in his early forties. He finally died of lung cancer on March 24, 2016, at the age of 68. He was the first player to pass away in the 1974 World Cup finals. Another distinctive feature of Cruyff is that he often wore the No. 14 jersey that was extremely rare at the time: Until the 1990s, football players often did not use specific back numbers. Instead, jerseys No. 1 to 11 were given to the starting players when the lineup was announced before the game (and in Cruyff's position, he should be No. 9 or No. 11). And he did wear the No. 9 jersey in the early days of his debut (he later transferred to Barcelona. At that time, La Liga stipulated that starting players must wear Nos. 1 to 11, and he also wore No. 9 during this period). However, in the Eredivisie game against the archrival PSV on October 30, 1970, his teammate Gerrie Mühren couldn't find his No. 7 jersey before the start of the game. After Cruyff gave him his No. 9 jersey, he grabbed a No. 14 jersey used by the substitute players and went into battle. In the end, Ajax won a thrilling 1-0. After that, Cruyff began to use this lucky number with the acquiescence of the Dutch Football Association, and also brought this habit to the national team: when the 1974 World Cup During the World Cup, when the Dutch team wanted to allocate jersey numbers before the game and submitted the list to FIFA, head coach Michels originally planned to sort it by English letters, and Cruyff, who started with C, should be the No. 1 in the team in this order, but he insisted on choosing the No. 14 jersey, while the others were arranged in alphabetical order. However, at the 1976 European Cup, he was asked to wear the No. 9 jersey again. On Cruyff's 60th birthday, Ajax announced the permanent retirement of his iconic No. 14 jersey.

John Thomas Devitt AM (English: John Thomas Devitt, February 4, 1937 - August 17, 2023) was an Australian male swimmer who was good at freestyle swimming. He has won 2 Olympic swimming gold medals. In addition, he also participated in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

John William Peers OAM (English: John William Peers, July 25, 1988 -) is an Australian professional tennis player who mainly participates in singles and doubles competitions in the ATP Challenger Tour. Since 2013, he has focused on doubles events and started participating in the ATP World Tour.

Nadia Elena Comăneci (Romanian: Nadia Elena Comăneci, born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian female gymnast who currently lives in the United States. She won five Olympic gold medals and was the first person to score a perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics. The international media has selected her as one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century and one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. She is also known as the "Queen of Gymnastics". Comaneci is not only excellent in gymnastics, but also talented and beautiful. In the tight time of 12 hours of gymnastics and 4 hours of school study every day, he still managed to master 5 languages ​​(Romanian, English, Spanish, French, Italian) and various knowledge.

Venus Ebony Starr Williams (English: Venus Ebony Starr Williams, June 17, 1980 -, nicknamed "Venus", an American female tennis player, the highest singles ranking in the world, winner of seven Grand Slams. Although her playing record with her younger sister is inferior, Venus was once the world number one in women's singles and won 23 Grand Slam titles (7 in women's singles, 14 in women's doubles, and 2 in mixed doubles) and the 2008 WTA year-end finals title. and entered the Olympics 5 times, winning 4 golds and 1 silver (1 gold in women's singles, 3 golds in women's doubles, and 1 silver in mixed doubles. In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Venus Williams, who participated in the Olympics for the first time, became a double gold medalist in singles and doubles). He reached his 90th Grand Slam appearance in his career at the Wimbledon Championships in 2021. He is the player who has participated in the most Grand Slam matches in the Open era. Compared with her sister Serena Williams, Venus Williams hits the ball flat rather than with topspin, so her serve speed is faster. She has been the record holder in women's tennis serve speed for many years. The drawing style is more offensive than defensive, more aggressive but also makes more mistakes. This style of play makes Venus Williams perform particularly well in grass-court events. She is known as the "Queen of Grass". She reached the Wimbledon Championship women's singles finals eight times in 10 years from 2000 to 2009, and won the Venus Rosewater Dish (Wimbledon women's singles championship trophy) five times.

Rory McIlroy McIlroy, May 4, 1989 - (mostly referred to as Wheat by Taiwanese media) is a golf professional from Northern Ireland. He has won three major championships: the 2011 U.S. Open, the 2012 PGA Championship, and the 2014 British Open. He became the first European golf player to win three different major championships. He also became the third male player in history to win three major championships before the age of 25 (the other two are Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods). He won the Masters Championship in 2025 and achieved a Grand Slam. In 2011, at the age of 22, he became the youngest player in history to win 10 million euros in prize money on the European Tour; in 2012, he became the youngest player to win 10 million US dollars in prize money on the PGA Tour. SportsPro magazine ranked McIlroy second among the most commercial athletes. On January 14, 2013, NIKE signed a high-value contract with McIlroy. It was initially rumored to be as high as 10 years/USD 250 million. The current more credible contract is 10 years/USD 100 million.

Roberto Luongo (Italian: Roberto Luongo, April 4, 1979 -), Canadian men's ice hockey player, 190 cm tall. He represented the Canadian national team in ice hockey competitions at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics and won two gold medals.

Roberto Fabián Ayala (Roberto Fabián Ayala, April 14, 1973 -) is a retired Argentine football player who serves as a defender.

Robert Lewandowski (Polish: Robert Lewandowski, pronunciation: [ˈrɔbɛrt lɛvanˈdɔfskʲi]; August 21, 1988 -) is a Polish football player who serves as a forward. He currently plays for the Chicago Fire and the Polish national team and serves as captain. Liwandowski has won the Golden Boot six times. He has led the Polish national team to the World Cup and European Cup finals many times, and is known as the 95 Supreme (scoring five goals in nine minutes in the Bundesliga). He has scored more than 600 goals for all clubs and the national team in his current career, second only to Messi and Ronaldo. Lewandowski made his debut in the Polish league and helped Lichpozna win the Polish League Championship in the 2009/10 season. After that, he moved to neighboring Germany and transferred to the famous Bundesliga club Dortmund where he became famous. He immediately won and defended the Bundesliga title in the 10/11 and 11/12 seasons for the team. In the 12/13 season, he helped the team reach the Europa League final, where they lost to their old domestic rival Bayern Munich. After four years of playing, he switched to rival Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich for free after his contract expired. He won the Bundesliga and Bundesliga marksman awards with both teams. In Bayern Munich's match against Wolfsburg in 2015, Lewandowski came on as a reserve and scored 5 goals in just 9 minutes. He set 4 Guinness world records in the history of the Bundesliga, including the fastest 4 goals in a single game (5 minutes and 42 seconds), the fastest hat trick (3 minutes and 22 seconds), the fastest 5 goals in a single game (8 minutes and 59 seconds), and the most goals scored by a reserve player in a single game (5 goals). He later won the UEFA Champions League with Bayern in the 19/20 season, and won the German Bundesliga top scorer honor six times, second only to the legendary German star "Bomber" Gerd Muller's seven times. In terms of the national team, he led Poland to qualify for the 2016 and 2020 European Championships. In the final week of the European Cup of Nations (Poland has only qualified once in the past several editions of the European Cup), and as the main force, he accompanied Poland to the historic quarterfinals of the event in 2016. Unfortunately, they lost to the current champion Portugal in the 12-yard shootout stage and could not go further. He is currently the captain of the Polish national team. Lewandowski won the Ballon d'Or Award for Best Forward twice in 2020 and 2021, and won the Ballon d'Or Award in 2020. However, unfortunately, the epidemic caused the award ceremony to be suspended and he lost his best chance to win the award. Later, he had to settle for second place in 2021, with 33

Ronnie Antonio O'Sullivan OBE (English: Ronnie Antonio O'Sullivan, born December 5, 1975), an English professional snooker player, became a Hong Kong resident through the Excellent Talents Entry Program in 2024. He is also the holder of many records in the snooker field, including tying with Stephen Hendry for the record of seven world championships in the professional era. He is also widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Since turning professional in 1992, O'Sullivan has won 7 World Snooker Championships, a record 8 Snooker Masters championships and a record 8 British Snooker Championships. He has won a total of 23 championships in the three snooker majors, which is unprecedented. He is one of 11 professional Grand Slam players (that is, he has won all three majors), and ranks first in history with 41 ranking event titles. In the 1993 British Championships, he became the youngest player to win the championship title at the age of 17 years and 358 days. He is also the youngest player to win the Masters in 1995 at the age of 19 years and 69 days. In addition, he is also the record holder for the oldest winner of three major championships, namely the 2022 World Championship (46 years and 150 days), the 2023 British Championship (47 years and 364 days) and the 2024 Masters (48 years and 40 days). He has won more than £11 million in career winnings, the highest of any snooker player. In addition, O'Sullivan, John Higgins and Mark Williams, who were born in the same year, were also players who won ranking events in the 1990s, 2000s, 10s and 20s. The three of them were collectively known as the "Three Heroes of 75". Osu Liyun has been ranked No. 1 in the world many times, and has been No. 1 in the world at the end of the year six times, for a total of more than 7 years. In March 2019, O'Sullivan returned to the world's No. 1 position after winning the first Tour Championship. The last time he ranked No. 1 in the world was in May 2010. Returning to the number one spot in the world after nearly nine years has also set a record in the history of snooker for the longest time between two rankings. O'Sullivan is a player who has broken 100 in a single stroke many times, and is the only player to break 100 in more than 1,300 strokes. He reached the milestone of 1,000 strokes in the 14th game of the 2019 Players Championship final and defeated Neil Robertson 10-4 to win the championship that year.

Rodney George Laver AC MBE (English: Rodney George Laver, August 9, 1938 -), a retired Australian male tennis player, ranked No. 1 in the world in singles, winner of 11 Grand Slams, and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Laver holds the record for winning the most singles titles in tennis history, winning a total of 198 singles titles in his career, and was the world's number one male tennis player for seven consecutive years from 1964 to 1970 (ranked on the professional circuit from 1964 to 1967). He is also the first player in the history of tennis to win the Grand Slam twice, as an amateur in 1962 and as a professional in 1969, and the first player to win a Grand Slam since the beginning of the Open Era (Margaret Court won hers in 1970, followed by Steffi Graf in 1988).Laver is hailed as one of the greatest players in tennis history。 Laver won a total of 11 Grand Slam series championships and 8 Professional Championship Tour championships in his career, including the 1967 Professional Grand Slams. In addition, he also won 9 Tennis Grand Prix (the predecessor of today's ATP World Tour Masters 1000) championships between 1970 and 1975.In addition to the above-mentioned Grand Slam series singles champions，Lavoe also won6Grand Slam doubles champions and3Grand Slam mixed doubles champion。 Laver excelled and won titles on all surfaces during his tennis career (turf, clay and wood/parquet), and was still rated the best professional tennis player in the world during the five years he was excluded from the Grand Slam series. He is also the second male tennis player to win all Grand Slam series titles twice. Before him, only Roy Emerson and Margaret Court in the history of tennis have won four Grand Slam series titles more than twice. Since Laver officially turned professional in 1963, he could not participate in Grand Slam competitions. It was not until 1968, when the Open Era began, that he participated in Grand Slam competitions again. 2000Year，Melbourne City Council renames Center Court where Australian Open tennis tournament will be held at Lord's·Laver Arena，In memory of this legendary star。 The Laver Cup is also

Roger Federer is a former Swiss professional tennis player. Federer has won a total of 20 Grand Slam championships and has been ranked No. 1 in the world for 310 weeks, including a record of 237 consecutive weeks as the world No. 1 in men's tennis. He is one of the best men's players in the history of tennis. Federer has won 103 ATP singles titles in his career, including 20 Grand Slam titles, 6 ATP year-end finals titles, and 28 Masters titles.

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (Portuguese: Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, September 18, 1976 -) is a Brazilian football player who serves as a forward. Leonardo was dubbed the "“alien”title。 Ronaldo was elected World Footballer three times, won the Ballon d'Or twice, won two World Cup championships and one runner-up for Brazil. In 1998, he was the assist leader and fourth in the scorer list, and was elected the best player in the World Cup; in 2002, he won the World Cup Golden Boot Award.in2002The World Cup was the pinnacle of Ronaldo's career。 He scored 15 goals in three World Cups. In 2006, he broke the record of West German player Gerd Muller and became the player with the most goals in the World Cup. This record was not broken until 2014 by German player Gaulus. Whether in the club or the national team, he can also frighten his opponents and win the team with his excellent skills, amazing speed, powerful explosiveness and precise shooting. Ronaldo retired on February 14, 2011.ronaldo2018Year9Buying in Valladolid by month51％after the shares，Became the majority shareholder of La Liga club Valladolid。 2020Ronaldo wins Ballon d'Or award as best in history11lineup and the best center。Ranked as the strongest striker in Brazil with the legendary Brazilian football king Pele In the Chinese speaking circle，Ronaldo's nickname is“Da Luo”，To distinguish another Brazilian star with the same name from the same period“Ronaldinho”——Ronaldino。

Robert Hampton "Robbie" Rogers (born May 12, 1987) is an American professional football player who currently plays for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Position is midfielder or second forward. Rogers is currently a member of the United States National Soccer Team. In February 2013, Rogers came out as gay, becoming the second gay male footballer in the UK after Justin Fashanu came out in 1990. In May 2013, he played for the Los Angeles Galaxy and became the first openly gay man in a North American professional sports league. On December 2, 2017, she and American-Italian screenwriter and producer Greg Berlanti held a wedding in Malibu, a wealthy seaside community in California. Before the wedding, they gave birth to their daughter Lin through a surrogate mother on February 18, 2016.

Robin Cousins ​​(English: Robin Cousins, August 17, 1957 -), British figure skater. He was the 1980 Winter Olympics champion, the 1980 European Championship champion, and won medals at the three World Championships in 1978, 1979, and 1980, and defended the British Championship four times from 1977 to 1980. After retiring, he was active in ice performances and personally participated in productions. He has also appeared on the stage of the West End theatre, has been a commentator on the BBC's broadcast of international figure skating events for a long time, and served as the judge of the reality TV show "Figure Ice Dancing".

Yuzuru Hanyu, a Japanese professional figure skater and former Japanese men's singles representative, was an athlete under the ANA Group (2013-2022). . He ranked first in the world rankings for five consecutive years from 2013 to 2018 and is currently the only skater to achieve the "Super Grand Slam" in men's figure skating.

Nie Weiping (August 17, 1952 - January 14, 2026), male, was born in Shenxian County, Hebei Province (now Shenzhou). He was born in Tiexi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. He was a Go player in mainland China and served as the honorary chairman of the Chinese Go Association and the technical consultant of the Chinese Chess Academy.

Julián Andrés Quiñones (Spanish: Julián Andrés Quiñones, March 24, 1997 -) is a professional football player who serves as a forward or winger. He was born in Colombia, but plays for the Mexican national football team.

Juan Carlos Zabala (Spanish: Juan Carlos Zabala, October 11, 1911 - January 24, 1983) was an Argentine male long-distance runner. He won the gold medal in the men's marathon at the 1932 Summer Olympics, and he also served as the flag bearer for the Argentine delegation at the opening ceremony of the 1936 Summer Olympics.